InterDigital’s Atle Monrad Elected Chair of 3GPP’s SA6 Working Group
Company Release - 3/5/2024
WILMINGTON, Del., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), a mobile, video and AI technology research and development company, announced the election of Atle Monrad to serve as Chair of 3GPP’s Service and Systems Aspects Working Group 6 (SA6).
Within the 3GPP standards-setting organization, the SA6 working group is responsible for critical communication, service frameworks and application enablement for vertical markets. The SA6 working group determines architecture requirements, functional architecture, procedures, information flows, interworking with non-3GPP application layer solutions, and deployment models, as appropriate for different 3GPP verticals. Delegates from major 3GPP member companies and public safety companies voted to elect Atle Monrad to serve a two-year term as SA6 Chair.
“We congratulate Atle on his election to Chair the 3GPP SA6 Working Group, which is no doubt a reflection of his expertise and the respect he has earned over his more than 35 years of industry influence,” said Rajesh Pankaj, CTO, InterDigital. “We’re confident that under Atle’s leadership, this group will shape the important criteria that enables more verticals and markets to leverage the capabilities of our mobile networks.”
Atle began attending 3GPP meetings in 2001 and is a well-respected 3GPP contributor with a long history of leadership positions, including serving two terms as 3GPP CT Plenary Chair, and five terms as CT1 Chair. Within his long career, Atle has also worked in standardization of the cellular systems including 5G, LTE, UMTS and, GSM.
